Roger Laurent

Roger Laurent

Nation:	Belgium
Automobile world championship
First start:	1952 Belgian Grand Prix
Last start:	1952 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1952 HWM and Ecurie Francorchamps
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Roger Laurent (born February 21, 1913 in Liège ; † February 6, 1997 in Uccle ) was a Belgian motorcycle and automobile racer .

Career

Roger Laurent began his motorsport career in motorcycle racing before World War II . In 1937 and 1938 he was the Belgian 350 cc champion on a Velocette . When racing activities resumed after the end of the war in 1947, it was Laurent who won the first Belgian post-war championship titles in both the 350 and 500 categories. In 1948 he defended his 350 cc championship on Norton .

Roger Laurent was a member of Ecurie Belgique as early as the late 1940s and drove their Veritas in national sports car races in Belgium. At the beginning of the 1950s he switched to the monopostos . The successes remained modest, although he was entrusted with the new Ecurie racing car, a Talbot . Only in one race in Albi and a second that ran through the streets of Helsinki with poor participation was he able to win.

In 1952 he made his debut in Formula 1. At the Belgian Grand Prix he drove a works HMW and was classified twelfth. The Ecurie Francorchamps, to which the Ecurie was renamed, acquired a Ferrari 500 in the same year , with which Laurent then showed strong performances. He finished sixth at the Nürburgring at the German Grand Prix , a year later in Chimay and fourth in 1954 in Syracuse .

He showed his skills in the sports car. For Ecurie, which used Jaguar vehicles in the 1950s , he competed in all major sports car races of his time. In 1954 he was fourth in Le Mans and third in the 6-hour race in Reims .

After a serious training accident in Bari in late 1954, he had to skip the entire 1955 season. In 1956 he returned for a year and drove sports car races.

statistics

Motorcycle title

• 1937 - Belgian 350 cc champion on Velocette
• 1938 - Belgian 350 cc champion on Velocette
• 1947 - Belgian 350cc champion on Norton
• 1947 - Belgian 500 cc champion on Velocette
• 1948 - Belgian 350cc champion on Norton

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1952	HW Motors	HWM 52	Alta 2.0 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
	Ecurie Francorchamps	Ferrari 500	Ferrari 2.0 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-
total				2	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1952
			12			6th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1953	Ecurie Francorchamps	Jaguar C-Type	Charles de Tornaco	Rank 9
1954	Ecurie Francorchamps	Jaguar C-Type	Jacques Swaters	Rank 4

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Ecurie Francorchamps	Jaguar C-Type	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					9	DNF	DNF
1954	Ecurie Francorchamps	Jaguar C-Type	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
						4th	7th

Web links

• About Roger Laurent (French)